Writing Workshops
To register for a workshop, email info@hookerdunham.org.
Please include your name, email, and which workshop or workshops you are registering for!
Ghost Lab
with GennaRose Nethercott
You spent more than a year confined to your home, floating from room to room, rarely stepping outside. The outside world seemed distant and untouchable. History swept by. But you know who’s been doing this for centuries? Ghosts! Stories about haunted houses have been examining domestic claustrophobia for years—so let’s learn from the pros. In this two-hour workshop, we’ll write spooky tales, dissect how to build the perfect ghost story (beginning with the question, “What IS a ghost?!), and of course, create a few phantoms of our own to keep us company.
When: October 24th, 2021 from 2:00PM-4:00PM
What: A hands-on writing workshop, taught by GennaRose Nethercott
Who: Everyone! No experience necessary
Fee: $40
Where: Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery, Brattleboro
Age: 14 and up
Proof of vaccination and masking required.
Bring a notebook & pen/pencil.
Monster Lab
with GennaRose Nethercott
What defines a monster? Dreadful deeds, claws and teeth, supernatural strangeness? Are monsters villains to be vanquished, or simply misunderstood outsiders? Spend your Halloween encountering a few of literature's and folklore’s wildest beasts, as we examine what makes a paranormal creature tick—and then, we'll use those tools to invent new monsters of our own.
When: October 31st, 2021
What: A hands-on writing workshop
Who: Everyone! No experience necessary
Fee: $40
Where: Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery, Brattleboro
Proof of vaccination and masking required.
Bring a notebook & pen/pencil.
Workshop Instructor
GennaRose Nethercott
GennaRose Nethercott is the author of The Lumberjack’s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins) selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series. A born Vermonter, she tours nationally and internationally performing from her works and composing poems-to-order on a manual typewriter with her team, The Traveling Poetry Emporium. She has taught writing workshops from coast to coast, and her first novel and short story collection are forthcoming from Knopf Vintage.